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How To Create Minimalistic Landscapes Using Blur Filters in Photoshop

 For at least 10 - 15 years I love creating abstract minimalistic landscapes such as beach and forest scenes in my post processing of photos using a range of Photoshop's blur filters.  Here's one of my latest images that features this (and other) techniques: The original photo was taken almost 15 years ago with a 7 megapixel Canon Camera, but I wanted to challenge myself and try to make more interesting image out of it.  Start I came across this image while browsing through my photo archive and kind of liked the scene with the woman enjoying standing in or close to the surf. Editing Steps 1. I expanded the image from its 4:3 ratio to a square format making the added part transparent. Then I selected the blue sky and erased it. As I knew I wanted to create an abstract image I searched for a cloudy sky and found a suitable photo in my library, that would make a more interesting sky than a bland blue one.   I positioned this sky a layer under the beach photo and go...
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Free Texture Wednesday VIII

Hello, I am busy working on a colorful Spring Texture Pack, which is about to be released in a few days. At the moment I am using them on a variety of new pictures and I must say I am enjoying what beautiful effect they have...

Anyway, all that creatting and testing kept me from posting, so I thought I give away one freebie that will be available in the Build Your Own Texture Pack.
Please click on the picture to download the texture from Picasa!


Vintage Grunge
Aus Free textures


I used this texture on one of my forest fog pictures and it added to the already dense atmosphere:


   
As usual I also made a screen shot of the PS layers to show how I used the texture:







To get a rather strong texture effect I first used it in Multiply mode and then copied it and brightened up the whole picture using Soft Light at 30%. Because the Multiply layer made the tree trunks too dark I made a selection and added a layer mask at 50% to recover some light and detail on the trees.
By applying curves I enhanced the contrast and finished with levels trying to add some light to the yellow fog.

 Hope to see you back here in  a few days when I will be launching the new textures.

Thanks!

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